lynthia | Thoughts on the first day of preschool

• How on earth do I have a child old enough for preschool? WHERE IS MY BABY?!?

• When they say "parent participation," they mean it. When I first saw the schedules, I thought six parents staying per class was kind of a lot. After today, I'm grateful there were extra parents who stuck around.

• Clearly, sticking the new person on tricycle duty is some kind of ritual hazing. Five kids under three years old on one track? Who thought that was a good idea?

• I do not have the worst behaved child in class. Petty, but there it is. It makes me happy. :)

• When another parent asked if I was an alumni, as I seemed to really "get it," I took that as a good sign. I'm not, by the way, but my sister is. I remember her going as a little kid, so we'll pretend that counts.

• Tomorrow is the teacher home visit. I was kind of surprised that the teacher actually drives around to every single kids house, but she makes it sound like no big deal. it'll be interesting to see how Charles reacts to having his teacher show up in his living room.

• Thursday is technically a day off for me; each parent is only supposed to work one day per week. We'll see how it goes - I'm thinking I'll just hang out in my car, in case he wigs and needs me. There's a handy little clipboard at sign in for putting down stuff like that so they'll know how to find me.

• I miss my morning walk. I'm looking forward to the schedule settling down again so I can figure out where to put it, now that my mornings are mostly busy.

• School-induced nap time is awesome. He fell asleep in the car, stayed that way while I carried him in, and is now in bed. Snoring. Ahhhhhhh.